On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Webdragon wrote:

	Odd.  Got feedback on the fic before the fic even came back to me...

Story by Mike Noakes

"Don't bother, Akane." she said.  "There's no point.  You'll just end
up fighting, you know you will.  Give her a chance to cool down."

        Sayuri knows that Ranma is a "he", right?

	Yeah.  I used 'she' after having a discussion with Zen.  
Apparently, most of the characters refer to Ranma by his current gender; 
the exception seem to be Kasumi, Cologne, and Genma (except when he wants 
to humiliate his osn, fo course...)
 

Ranma, herself, was arguably the most popular guy.  How could
Ranma possibly be depressed?  

        Yes, why is she depressed?  She only has Ryoga, Mousse,
Kuno, Happosai and the odd monster, demon or angry martial artist

[clip]

        Yes.  Life couldn't be better.

	<grin>  Right - so you _do_ understand Hiroshi's view!

She could have any girl at school, if
she wanted, or, for that matter, probably any guy.  

Hm.  Interesting.  Tell me, is Ranma-chan a lesbian or a pervert? ^_^

	Confused?
 

        Maybe it's just me and my hentai nature, but this
paragraph..... ^_^

        Oh, my, Hirsoshi and the guys are....are....curse me and
my hentai nature!  :)

	Heh - you seem to have definite ideas on which direction I aughta 
bringt his story...
 

    "Hey, what is it?" he asked, nudging her.  The conversation
carried on without them, Daisuke desperately trying to convince the
guys that _he_ had dumped _her_, and not the other way around.

        Daisuke dumped who?  Ranma-chan?  Nahh.  She's too cute.

	Nope.  I fixed that part up soon after sending it off...
 

pain, it wouldn't be so bad - I'm used to pain, I can take it no
problem; it's the other stuff.  The blood and other shit.  Or the way it
makes me feel, right before.  It really sucks. . ."

        Then why doesn't she change back to a guy when that 
happens?

	I'd assume that normally she would - unfortunately, Ranma seems 
to have trouble finding hot water occasionally...
 

myself.  But not me - it doesn't hit me that way; but I can still tell, I
know it's affecting me, I find myself acting. . . weird, sometimes.  It
scares me."

        Personally, I prefer to see more of female Ranma, so I can't
say it will affect me adversely if Ranma-chan became the dominant
personality.  Heck, I'd jump for joy.  Which is why the tapes "Pretty
Womanhood" and "Bathhouse Battle" are my favorites.

	Huh?  This isn't really a case of a submerged personality taking 
over.  I've never really bought that theory.  Ranma is Ranma, whether 
he's male or female.  There's bound to be some minor changes due to the 
actual physical transformation, but nothing major.  Well, in my opinion.
	Although I'd agree - those two tapes were pretty good; at the 
very least, the 'Am I pretty' ep. was one of the better animated 
Nettouhen eps.
 

    She stared at him for a moment before nodding.  "Yeah."
    "So that means that, ah, theoretically speaking, you could,
you know, get. . ."

       Theoretically, she would enjoy having sex, too, since she
has everything a real girl has.

	Well, yeah... but they're not talking about that (even drunk, I 
don't think Hiroshi would be quite _that_ brave).  Not that Ranma'd be 
willing to find, I don't think.
 

"You forgot to mention how stacked I am!"  She grinned and took a
drink.

	Ah.  I see you're bringing this story into places I never even 
considered!  <grin>  Most interesting...
 

        Then she got up and began to dance.  No one could say whether 
it was the fire that made everybody hot, or otherwise, but one thing 
was for sure...she was...*sensuous*.  No shrinking violet or timid
creature here...here was a *woman* in every sense of the word - 

	woman: /'wum(e)n/ n. 1. an adult human female. 2. the female sex 
3. a wife or female sexual partner. 4. etc, ad nauseum... :)

powerful yet coyly shy, demure without being boring, as exciting
as the blood and sensations coursing through their veins...
        She spun close to Hiroshi, lowered her eyes at him and
opened her mouth, as if to blow him a kiss, but she smiled and
drifted over to the next guy, light as a feather in the wind.
        Then, facing the stars with her eyes closed, she slowly,
painstakingly, and almost shyly, began to take her shirt off.  The
fires cast shadows on her face, and body, and her loose shirt,
and she let out a sigh - a light whisper on the breeze it seemed - 
before her shirt came off and fluttered away on the wind.  Her
arms clasped over her chest, she slowly, agonizingly, began to
slide her hands off her breasts, and.....
        CUT!!!
        ^_^

	Heh.  Ah, yeah.  Nice scene!  You _really_ seem to want this to 
go down a citric path...
 
***
 

        And you have finals too?  Don't they just suck?

	Yes.  Most certainly.  At least their almost done.  WOuldn't be 
so bad if I didn't have summer school.  Grrrr...
 

        Where's Ryoga?  Thought he was going to show up at the
party and fight Ranma.

	Nah.  Too cliched.  Ryoga's gonna show up later...

	Anyway, thanks for the feedback!  Hmmm, maybe you oughta right up 
a lemon-version of this story, you seem to have rooted out its 
unconscious tendancies in that direction... :)

	Later!
	-Mike Noakes